This is really a question for the 7400 people (!) at the SharePoint Conference 2009. Of all the new features and improvements in SharePoint 2010, which one (or area or feature set) do you think will have the biggest impact on the world of SharePoint development?
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I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet, but the new BDC (Business Data Catalog), the BCS (Business Connectivity Services), looks really promising - and something that people may actually use as more than a last resort this time around.
Edit: Now that I have had the time to play with the BCS - I can tell you that it is a HUGE improvement over the BDC in terms of both flexibility and ease of use - it is going to be the center of a ton of big-business custom development work to come.
Greg Hurlman
2009-10-22 22:39:49
The BDC/BCS stuff is pretty sweet, and not very hard to code against...
Jermismo
2009-12-16 02:34:28
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2 biggest improvements:
1 - Dev tools support - You can throw away WSPBuilder, SharePoint Manger, and all the other hodge-podge tools you used to develop SharePoint Solutions.
2 - Taxonomy/MetaData - You can add a metadata column to any content type and query that information accross farms. Leverages the new service application infrastructure which gets rid of SSP's
Peter Walke
2009-10-25 21:35:18
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Development support on Win 7 / WS08R2
You no longer have to do your development on Windows Server. You can use Win 7, Vista, or WS08R2.
Peter Walke
2009-10-25 21:50:30
Note: this is almost useless for consultants that find their domain-joined laptop often disconnected from their domain - can't authenticate you, locks you out.
Greg Hurlman
2009-10-26 15:03:13
Wow... I find this hard to believe. I can't wait to get my hands on the beta bits to confirm if this is true. If so, what a great feature hampered by a horrible shortcomming.
Peter Walke
2009-10-26 21:56:46
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It may sound stupid, but I would say sound compatibility with Firefox is the comforting thing to know. It not because I am a big fan of Firefox, but it shows a big step of MS towards openness.
skyflyer
2009-10-29 11:30:08
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For me? The fact that I can now publish my access applications to the web. Here is a video of me playing with ms-access, and about half way through this short demo I switch over to running the application in a browser. I tested this in FireFox, and it also runs 100% perfect...
Albert D. Kallal
2009-11-03 21:58:31
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I liked the BDC but was disappointed at the lack of tools to quickly bring an existing SPList from another site or site collection in as a external list. It can be done, but it is a very manual tedious process. I would have liked to see a point and proxy sort of API.
Having lived through some SharePoint application upgrade disasters, I would say that I am very favorable to the new Feature Versioning and Feature Upgrade capabilities. The ability to define an upgrade path for content types and lists as well as move existing file URL's is great. With the new event and FeatureUpgrading method on the SPFeatureReceiver you can do just about anything in upgrade.
DaveGrahamOrg
2009-11-05 22:04:00
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I have been playing with Business Conectivity Services and i'm very impressed. this is the tool that will make sharepoint the bridge in a business.
Chris Jones
2009-11-17 19:51:22
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Out of the box Global Navigation Components no longer use tables. I know it's really not way up there on the list of improvements, but I was super excited when I read this.
Slipfish
2009-11-17 20:05:24
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Microsoft has introduced a lot of new features and enhancements in SharePoint 2010. Following posts consists of about 20 new featues and enhancements with brief description:
http://www.etechplanet.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-explore-new-features-and-enhancements-part1.aspx
http://www.etechplanet.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-explore-new-features-and-enhancements-part2.aspx
Technology Professional
2010-09-02 12:04:25